All numbers possess feature-markers. Pythagoras' theorem of numbers, learn us. When it comes to the prime 61 (sixty+one), the two square numbers 36 + 25 are protruding like front teeth. 61 is moreover suitable for rhe dividend 366. If you have not abstracted your proficiency from a teacher, if you have acquired your insight (cf. Trachtenberg) through elementary studies of your own, you will know, when confronted with such figures as from the Phaistos disc, that they are main features for the seven-step hollow pyramid. Take the prime 73 (seventy-two+one). This figure is a fifth part of the calendar year... Numbers are characterized by some few parametres.

During an examination of a subject like the Phaistos disc, it is inconvenient to refer continuously to the imagery of the characters, consequently they are numbered from 1 - 45, Sir Arthur Evans; but as I am engaged with countings, it becomes distracting to use arbitrary numerals as notation. Among the 46 dissimilar signs, I especially work with the 30 that makes up the 22 stem-forms, and stretching the alphabet to 29 capital letters by using the Danish Æ, Ø, Å (&) gives me a more comfortable notation. The 16 dissimilar remaining non- stem-signs are recorded with the small letters fron a - p. 'An alternative notation'. meant for everybody, who takes this artifact for serious ...